Camel Sputum Site: Burdigalian, Australia
collected 2000

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Mammalia - Diprotodontia - Phascolarctidae
Nimiokoala greystanesi Black and Archer 1997
4 specimens
QMF30490; QMF30491; QMF30492; QMF24351
Mammalia - Diprotodontia - Vombatidae
Rhizophascolonus ngangaba n. sp. Brewer et al. 2018
Brewer et al. 2018 5 specimens
QM F23772; QM F23903; QM F20706; QM F57967; QM F23769
see common names

Geography
Country:Australia State/province:Queensland
Coordinates: 19.1° South, 138.7° East (view map)
Paleocoordinates:29.9° South, 135.1° East
Basis of coordinate:based on nearby landmark
Geographic resolution:small collection
Time
Period:Neogene Epoch:Miocene
Stage:Burdigalian 10 m.y. bin:Cenozoic 5
Key time interval:Burdigalian Zone: Faunal Zone B
Age range of interval:20.44000 - 15.98000 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Stratigraphic resolution:bed
Stratigraphy comments: The CS Site is listed among "System B"-aged sites in Travouillon et al. (2006, Alcheringia, 30, Suppl. 1, 323-349).
The suboptimal stratigraphic nomenclature of Archer et al. (1997, Mém. Trav. École Prat. Hautes Études Inst. Montpellier, 21, 131–152) is replaced by a concept of faunal zones by Arena (2004, PhD thesis, Uviv. New South Wales, Sydney), confirmed by Travouillon et al. (2006). Faunal Zones A, B, C are identical to "Systems" A, B, C of Archer et al. (1997). Faunal Zone B is Early Miocene in age.
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: "carbonate"
Lithology description: Fossiliferous rocks of the Riversleigh area are said to represent freshwater carbonates whose depositional history appears to involve a complex sequence of fluvial and karst processes (Archer et al., 2006, Alcheringia, 30, Suppl. 1, 1-17 and references cited therein).
Environment:terrestrial indet.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Size of fossils:macrofossils,mesofossils
Preservation of anatomical detail:excellent
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods:acetic,survey of museum collection
Reason for describing collection:taxonomic analysis
Collection dates:2000
Collection method comments: "Riversleigh fossils are rarely articulated but usually undistorted, can be completely freed from matrix with acid [...]." (Scanlon, 2006).
QMF = paleontology collections of Queensland Museum
AR = Michael Archer reference collection, University of New South Wales (possibly serving as temporary registration)
Taxonomic list comments:Scanlon& Lee (2000) list one maxillary fragment (QM F39932) as belonging to Wonambi barriei, but later (Scanlon, 2005) states that it "appears too large to be consistent with the same taxon."
Scanlon (2005) lists specimen no. AR 12476 twice: for Wonambi and again for Yurlunggur, in both cases with reference to mandibular fragments.
Scanlon (2006) only gives detailed information on the most complete specimen but states that "disarticulated vertebrae of several other (larger and smaller) Yurlunggur individuals were recovered from the same blocks".
Metadata
Also known as:CS Site, Godthelp’s Hill, D-Site Plateau, Riversleigh
Database number:203530
Authorizer:G. Lloyd Enterer:G. Lloyd
Modifier:M. Uhen Research group:vertebrate
Created:2019-08-19 09:55:53 Last modified:2020-08-03 12:37:40
Access level:the public Released:2019-08-19 09:55:53
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:
69770. K. Black and M. Archer. 1997. Nimiokoala gen. nov. (Marsupialia, Phascolarctidae) from Riversleigh, northwestern Queensland, with a revision of Litokoala. Memoirs of the Queensland Museum 41(2):209-228 [G. Lloyd/G. Lloyd]

Secondary references:

75461 P. Brewer, M. Archer, S. Hand and G. J. Price. 2018. A new species of Miocene wombat (Marsupialia, Vombatiformes) from Riversleigh, Queensland, Australia, and implications for the evolutionary history of the Vombatidae. Palaeontologia Electronica 21.2.27A:1-48 [G. Lloyd/G. Lloyd]
73261 T. J. Myers, K. H. Black, M. Archer and S. J. Hand. 2017. The identification of Oligo-Miocene mammalian palaeocommunities from the Riversleigh World Heritage Area, Australia and an appraisal of palaeoecological techniques. PeerJ 5(e3511):1-31 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen]